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811.
by lxgr 7mo ago
Interesting, I wonder if there is some other initiation channel then? The chance of collisions with random 6-digit codes seems non-negligible.
812.
by lxgr 7mo ago
It might not always be warranted, but where it was, increased trust in society, institutions, and systems has been the enabler for economic growth and human development in the past centuries. Talk it down at your own (or more accurately,
813.
by lxgr 7mo ago
The EU already managed to make card payments significantly cheaper and more secure within a few years than they'll probably ever be in the US (still no PINs and no 3DS, and interchange will probably never get regulated because everybod
814.
by lxgr 7mo ago
This is indeed one of the biggest weaknesses of "pull-based" payment cards, and something most if not all natively phone-based methods do better. The best credit and debit cards can do is PIN verification or biometrics (for Apple&
815.
by lxgr 7mo ago
Unfortunately it's also pretty clunky for tax reasons in many places and inherently deflationary (and as such problematic from an economic point of view). Sure, great if you don't trust your government or whoever issues your local
816.
by lxgr 7mo ago
Hey, on the other hand, zero malware! It is zero, right? Please say it's zero... Just today I found a malicious version of Ledger on the macOS app store. It's been there for five weeks , and there are already some anecdotes out
817.
by lxgr 7mo ago
Yeah, "accumulate the heat over thousands of years" indeed sounds a bit misleading to me. The heat is largely already there (or is generated pretty uniformly through radioactive processes), it's just slowly transmitted outwar
818.
by lxgr 7mo ago
That's why I mentioned expected values. Historical data alone is too sparse. I don't doubt that that resulting number is still very low, or there (being intentionally optimistic about politics and society here) wouldn't be an
819.
by lxgr 7mo ago
Are you rhetorically or actually asking? I'd guess significantly lower than coal and gas, and in the ballpark of (but still higher than) solar and wind combined (in the expected value, i.e. probability of a Chernobyl-like disaster time
820.
by lxgr 7mo ago
That's not where natural geothermal energy is from. It's residual heat from planetary formation and some natural radioactivity. This form of storage also unfortunately only yields heat (via heat pumps or directly), not electricity
821.
by lxgr 7mo ago
Sure, if you consider only local dangers and don't care at all about regional or global externalities.
822.
by lxgr 7mo ago
Don't you need even more than 100% (of your prior consumption) to remain renewable if you also switch to EVs and heat pumps? Why would 85% be enough?
823.
by lxgr 7mo ago
> how does Apple, a 50 year old company of tens of thousands of engineers and over a trillion USD market cap, manage to keep feature velocity high while not making more of these types of errors? They don't. If you're anything o
824.
by lxgr 7mo ago
If I'd get a dollar for every annoying bug that Apple misses due to being hopelessly Bay Area brained, I'd probably get at least a free official Apple cleaning cloth every couple of years.
825.
by lxgr 7mo ago
Wait, really? I thought "dead keys" being diacritics prefixes, not suffixes, was pretty universal. At least that's how it works with ^, ´, and ` on macOS for me.
826.
by lxgr 7mo ago
Because this limit isn’t about your hardware, but their software. As appropriate a model this still is in the development VM scenario, you still need a valid license for each operating system copy you run. Microsoft will sell you these indi
827.
by lxgr 7mo ago
But you can’t run 1024 copies of that one license. This is what this limit is actually about.
828.
by lxgr 7mo ago
> I can hand my physical books to my literal children and grandchildren when I die. […] The fact that this isn't guaranteed for DRM-locked ebooks In fact, the opposite is pretty much guaranteed. To my knowledge, you can’t inherit Am
829.
by lxgr 7mo ago
Personally I don’t use it for anything I can find pretty much everywhere else as well, but there are still a few people whose posts I consider interesting that only post on X.
830.
by lxgr 7mo ago
But then how would I know where to get more regular updates as somebody following them there? It used to be a bannable offense to even link to your presence on a competing side; not sure if it still is.
831.
by lxgr 7mo ago
It's the same principle that makes so many people unreasonably sympathetic to the concerns of those much wealthier than themselves: The statistically implausible assumption that they, too, will soon be part of the 1% somehow. Better st
832.
by lxgr 7mo ago
It also seems to have significantly better availability than chess.com, where I regularly had games end abruptly and be completely removed from my game history due to what I can only assume is a server restart.
833.
by lxgr 7mo ago
> I do feel a bit bad for chess.com I'm sure they'll be crying all the way to the bank. > I hope Lichess does not find themselves in a poor position if Magnus decides to "alter the deal". I also hope they manage to
834.
by lxgr 7mo ago
It's truly phenomenal. Even my diamond platinum extreme chess.com subscription (or however the third-best tier of a dozen or so is called) has much less functionality than Lichess's only tier.
835.
by lxgr 7mo ago
Then again, it's also against HN guidelines to complain about paywalls...
836.
by lxgr 7mo ago
How can both be true at the same time: It's insecure for random devices to be able to open up ports, and applications don't even need to open up ports for P2P communication? If a random device/application wants to insecurely
837.
by lxgr 7mo ago
> People telling you to not wear a helmet because it somehow reduces safety through some convoluted spaghetti argument, must be off their rockers, when they clearly save lives at impacts. No, they simply have different ethical frameworks
838.
by lxgr 7mo ago
OpenClaw (the idea) is amazing: Obvious in hindsight, deceptively simple. In the end, it’s really just taking “what if we gave an agent access to personal data and communication channels as context” and running with it, nevermind the conseq
839.
by lxgr 7mo ago
> People should not hear loud music when driving - max is normal speaking voice level. Oh, completely agreed on that one. In a car, you are also by far better protected than any cyclists you might encounter, so you shouldn't make it
840.
by lxgr 7mo ago
Yes, but again, what's your problem with additionally taking steps to make things safer? Unless you somehow see technologies such as this distracting from creating a safer environment. But this was developed by Skoda, so I doubt that

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